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I'm thinking skipping growth trash, for instance, will be much simpler if they have to "go home" back to spawn before resetting. No clue how it will actually work though.

Will FTE be a thing in instances? Seems like you could split one group off just to kite trash or whatever and the lock and reset mechanism would really change what you could skip.

This is terrible logic. Why compare people who plvl to people who hand level to max? It is just as reasonable to compare them to people who just quit at level 5 or whatever. Why assume without PLing those people who got PLs would otherwise stick around and level on their own?

I say remove motm from instances and cap instances at fewer players, like 24 in classic, 30 in Kunark etc. Small man raids are fun. Giving VT mobs more hit points is not. Obviously this wouldn't be interesting post-motm. Maybe there's some way to keep the vibe going. Also +100% exp and +50...

Just curious and contextless, what does it mean that plat was sent out? If there were 50 people in the guild and each person spent 400 Kronos on items, wouldn't it look like 20k Kronos were sent out? Meanwhile no one made any money, things just moved around. Or is this plat derived from...

I think this is over dramatizing. Yeah MySEQ is cheating but also people often forget to reply to camp checks and it is handy to have a way to say, "ass/sup is camped" despite not getting a response to your CC. When for 5+ years there was no risk or downside to having a tool like that, and it...

When you add this in, the 31 Necro's 56 pet may not even break charm like crazy: Q: Will spells be able to land on anything if we’re ten levels behind? A: Yes, we're using a new spell resist system for this server that includes an exception for Level Locked Progression servers. NPCs who are hit...

Theorycrafting is pretty fun, though I don't have time to play. At level 40 what's the best rez? 60%? That makes zerging harsh. Will first order of business be cleric epics? Royals/ragefire/ixiblat raids at 40 sounds interesting. Shards even more terrible than usual. Plate cycle also seems...

I think they should change MotM and raid caps for the next server. Maybe just keep Luclin era motm for classic and kunark and then ditch it come Velious. Cap raids at 24 or so. This is for DZes, maybe leave open world as is. This would make acquiring raid loot faster than the phinny clones...

It would make sense that Vindi has a chance to drop AOW/Vulak loot, but it is less likely than AOW dropping AOW/Vulak loot. Similarly, AOW should have a chance of dropping Vindi loot but be more likely to drop better shit. Keeps the roulette wheel spinning without making it optimal to many-split...

And 255 stat cap would be max for a byte I think.

You can try but people were discussing how hard this is in practice in this group-based when you can't find a group outside of the one or two zones. VT key is one of the first instances where the game actually creates an incentive to go to different zones.

This is why 6/10ths of the VT key (Seru, Ssra, Grey, Akehva, Acrylia, Deep) is fun and good: completing it takes you around the expansion and makes mediocre xp and mediocre raid bosses worth doing. And in general those 6 aren't painfully rare, though you can get screwed.

Talking about difficulty in the context of EQ TLPs always strikes me as missing the motivation of the vast majority of players. People like the ease and familiarity. It is basically rewatching Friends or The Office or whatever. Which a lot of people like.

I was mostly thinking about the fish/sharks/mermaids. The horses can keep you busy for awhile but the corrupt can be annoying and there are probably better options in that level range.

I really liked Kedge if you can deal with swimming around. ZEM is very good and I thought it was solid xp to 43 or so. You could also double charm there, which I assume you're after with that combo. At 43ish you could move to Chardok entrance to similarly double charm.

If only a DAoC developer would take a shot at a kickstarter MMO, I bet it would be smooth sailing.

This is neat. Have you actually done this consistently the past several years? How could Selo and Aradune be on the same list given they've never been in the same era? Did Selo + Mangler beat Phinigel? Is there a reason Mangler had so few guilds clear ToV relative to population?

This made me curious so I took a look: according to the various progress pages, Phinny had 19 guilds kill Vulak in era, Coirnav had 13 guilds , Mangler had 12, and Aradune has 18. Hard to know what that means and guessing at population always seems hard. Of those I only did Phinny and Aradune in...

Right. Killing Doze does not reset the loot timers for NToV or Vulak or anything. It resets the replay timer which I think is pretty short (6hrs?).

This is certainly true and what I thought before knowing these numbers. But the sheer extent of it is pretty wild. I bet their budget is 2m a year and they take 9m off the top. It makes me wonder who makes the call on resources for EQ and how. EQ has to be one of the first video games to be...

Yeah this works. We do NToV and Vulak Thursday and then Doze and Len following Tuesday. The HoT symbol drakes drop tears/symbols but other trash doesn't drop on Tuesday.

They're pulling in 11m a year and they can only manage retexturing six zones? I wonder what they're operating expenses are, did that come out?

I guess that makes sense, and it sounds like there's an audience that finds following the process in detail interesting. I was reading it as marketing material or aimed at building enthusiasm.

I hope this turns into something but can't believe they're sharing anything yet. This feels like they bought one of the asset store mmo things and spent 15 minutes on art.

It does seem weird that the options are either OW/batphone guild or 3 nights a week and almost nothing else. I think the kind of efficient/targeted approach could work. Lots of ways to do it. You could also rotate what you did each week-- at least enough so you kill all bosses in era.

Like a lot of folks, I quit for good the first time around during Gates. What's crazy to me is that the modern TLP era (May 2015-Now) has been going for as long that original golden era (March 1999-whenever 2004). At this point I'm nostalgic for Phinny and the first time I as a casual killed...

Classic grind you can't help but moving camps fairly often, at least until mid 30s. Kunark you can do one or maybe 2 camps 50-60. Only saving grace of Kunark are the Epics, at least for the classes they're reasonable on. It is fun to do smaller group raids, and the weapons themselves are...

What do you mean? I think there is, it is just that everything is level based and a solid group is just a camping ass/sup at the same level another group is camping BR, for example. There just aren't as many other forms of character progression or mob difficulty as there are later in the game...

This sounds much better than how it ended up. Now the mystery is why they chose to change it. I'm sure it is easier to balance when stats do less and fewer things.

Kedge is a totally different and far safer zone than it was back in the day and the ZEM is really nice. I did 38-47 there with my enc/sham duo but should have started and left a few levels early. Putting in real time there was one of the few things in early EQ I hadn't experienced. Main problem...

Sounds like he's due for an "accident".

5% is probably the maximum chance, 80 secs on a deep red mob feels about right.

Classic knights can hold aggro without meleeing so you avoid ripostes, which is a huge advantage. Post-classic, Defensive largely sidelines Knights as main tanks depending on gear and boss.

How much of the guild is quiting versus being absorbed elsewhere? Who's even still going on Phinny?

Glad they made Mangler reasonable though taking out Focus effects is dumb. That is the least of why casters have an advantage early on, which seems mostly due to buffed spells and lowered resists. As you said, it just kills incentive to raid. Very interested to see how Selo goes but can't...

I feel like Monks are amazing for a long time. Do they drop off later?

They really did everything wrong there. Selo is the perfect name for that server and obviously iconic. I'll keep thinking of it as Selo's, though.

Won't the fast instances eliminate any hint of Open World competition? I was hoping to read some good shitposting and am now concerned. I bet the delay was them trying to do something to decrease player power for the Hardcore server and either not being able to or not agreeing on what it should...

Could you do what you want on Phinny?